Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] she [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In answer to Tamar 's claims that she had no clothes suitable for a visit to the capital , Stephen persuaded her to wait until they arrived and then she would be able to buy something . |
| 2 | Robyn followed as best she could , her high-heeled boots skidding on the slippery surfaces , polished by generations of men grinding black sand underfoot . |
| 3 | Apart from the fact that she felt extremely foolish , her fears were now actually affecting her life and she felt that soon she would not be able to leave the house at all . |
| 4 | The darkness was suffocatingly thick , and she knew that ordinarily she 'd have been terrified . |
| 5 | I knew that tonight she would make love to another man . |
| 6 | She was keeping her promise to herself , but in her heart of hearts Tess knew that eventually she would accept him . |
| 7 | Her kindness touched me , but I knew that soon she would hear the lies about me , and then she would hate me ! |
| 8 | She knew that soon she would come to her senses , but for now it was just sheer bliss to be here , up against his heart . |
| 9 | For a moment that might have lasted hours she seemed to see herself , old and weak , and knew that now she could be free and the burden of life leave her wings for ever . |
| 10 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 11 | She thought that someday she would settle down . |
| 12 | She was frustrated by the narrow range of vegetables available in the country and said that tomorrow she would go foraging in the fields for different types of mushrooms and wild herbs . |
| 13 | He said that unfortunately she could not . |
| 14 | The supply was diminishing daily , and Ariel hoped that soon she would be able to persuade her captors she needed to gather further afield . |
| 15 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 16 | Seated between Gerald Tiverton and young Mr Finchingfield , Theda parried as best she could the barrage of effusive compliments with light banter . |